0480:a202 — Canvio Basics HDD

Toshiba America Inc

Vendor ID: 0480
Product ID: a202
Combined: 0480:a202
Decimal: 1152:41474

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Canvio Basics HDD manufactured by Toshiba America Inc. The vendor ID 0480 is registered to Toshiba America Inc with the USB Implementers Forum, and a202 is the product ID that Toshiba America Inc assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0480:a202 Toshiba America Inc Canvio Basics HDD.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0480:a202 Toshiba America Inc Canvio Basics HDD

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0480:a202, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0480:a202. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0480, idProduct=a202.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_0480&PID_A202
USB\VID_0480&PID_A202&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0480&PID_A202"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Canvio Basics HDD:
      Product ID: 0xa202
      Vendor ID: 0x0480  (Toshiba America Inc)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

0480  Toshiba America Inc
	a202  Canvio Basics HDD

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